how to say “incense” in Hebrew

 

קְטוֹרֶת

 

 
The Hebrew word for incense is קְטוֹרֶת  listen and repeat.
 
For example:
 
יֵשׁ כָּאן רֵיחַ שֶׁל קְטוֹרֶת.
There’s a scent of incense here.
 
The word’s root is ק.ט.ר (k.t.r), which gets plugged into the active-causative verb form to produce the word לְהַקְטִיר  listen and repeat to burn incense.
 
This word appears in a Talmudic passage that was made into a popular song by Avraham Fried:
 
פַּעַם אַחַת נִכְנַסְתִּי לְהַקְטִיר קְטוֹרֶת, לִפְנַי וְלִפְנִים…
Once I (the high priest in the Temple) went in to burn incense, to the innermost chamber…

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